Zenia Mucha, the spokeswoman for the ABC Broadcast Group and ABC Television Network divisions of the Walt Disney Company, was named the head of communications for Disney yesterday. She will succeed John Dreyer, who has held that position since 1992....

SHE barks. She bites. A 43-year-old guard dog who gets her own way, she keeps the object of her protective instincts, Gov. George E. Pataki, on a short leash, much as she handled her previous charge, former Senator Alfonse M. D'Amato. But surprise,...

Zenia Mucha, Gov. George E. Pataki's closest adviser and a power broker in her own right among the state's Republicans, announced today that she was resigning from her current post for a job in the private sector. Ms. Mucha, who now holds the...

December 20, 2000, Wednesday

Gov. George E. Pataki's top political adviser and communications director, Zenia Mucha, was named to a new post Friday as the governor's senior policy adviser. Taking Ms. Mucha's place as Mr. Pataki's director of communications is Michael McKeon,...

March 26, 2000, Sunday

To the Editor: Re ''Rejecting Rules, U.S. Judge Opens New York Ballot'' (front page, Feb. 5): Now that John McCain is on the ballot in all districts in New York, aides to Gov. George E. Pataki expressed relief that an issue had been taken away...

When Zenia Mucha had 10 minutes to spare before Gov. George E. Pataki arrived in the Orange County village of Chester for a campaign stop the other day, she did what any confident manager of an incumbent who is some 30 points ahead in the polls would...

The new running mate of Gov. George E. Pataki is opposed to Medicaid financing for abortions, an aide said today. Governor Pataki struggled in the 1994 election to convince women that he supported abortion rights. Eileen Long, a campaign...

One of Gov. George E. Pataki's closest advisers testified yesterday before a Federal grand jury in Brooklyn that is seeking to determine whether potential donors to Mr. Pataki's 1994 election campaign were promised favorable rulings from the State...

Federal prosecutors have begun an inquiry into fund-raising for Gov. George E. Pataki's 1994 election campaign, investigating whether potential donors were promised favors from the state government in return for campaign contributions, officials...

Ten months before Election Day, Gov. George E. Pataki's campaign has already collected more than $12 million, giving the Governor a huge fund-raising lead over his Democratic rivals and putting him close to the amount that he took in during his...